no-littering VS dotfiles

Compare no-littering vs dotfiles and see what are their differences.

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no-littering dotfiles
11 4
602 50
1.5% -
7.3 8.4
13 days ago 11 days ago
Emacs Lisp Emacs Lisp
GNU General Public License v3.0 only -
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no-littering

Posts with mentions or reviews of no-littering. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.

dotfiles

Posts with mentions or reviews of dotfiles. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-11.
  • Bad Emacs Defaults
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    Heh, I recently did a "clean sweep" of my .emacs files (inspired by the new support for `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/config/emacs/init.el` in 27.1) and something like 90% of it was workarounds (some dating back to the late 1990s, for example a "vertical-motion-fix" for something that was fixed in emacs 19.29)

    I definitely recommend doing some form of "dotfile bankruptcy" every 20 years or so :-)

    (I also ended up doing a crude "load-file-literate" so that now most of my elisp is actually markdown, inspired by https://github.com/skx/dotfiles )

  • Bikeshedding Friday: How do you organize your init file?
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Sep 2021
    I keep meaning to explore using org-mode for this. At the moment I have a trivial init.el which loads a literate markdown file init.md.
  • Noweb – A Simple, Extensible Tool for Literate Programming
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2021
    I keep meaning to experiment with bable/tangle in Emacs.

    I setup a simple literate configuration of my init file via markdown, which worked out really well, but doing it "properly" in org-mode would be a nice evolution.

    With markdown I just search for code-blocks, write them all sequentially to a temporary buffer and evaluate once done. So it is very simplistic, but also being able to write and group things is useful:

    https://github.com/skx/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.md

  • What parts of your config do you like best?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 17 Jan 2021
    ~/.emacs.d/init.el the helper, which loads/executes it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing no-littering and dotfiles you can also consider the following projects:

crafted-emacs - A sensible base Emacs configuration.

fw-utf8 - Modern fork of FunnelWeb (original written by Ross Williams)

dotfiles - arch linux configuration files

Literate - A literate programming tool for any language

dotfiles

dotemacs - My emacs configuration.

castlemacs - Modern, minimalist Emacs for macOS ⌘

straight.el - 🍀 Next-generation, purely functional package manager for the Emacs hacker.

dotfiles - The path to GNUrvana

ob-restclient.el - An org-mode extension to restclient.el

dotfiles - :wrench: .files, including ~/.macos — sensible hacker defaults for macOS

spiralweb - Literate programming system with a Pandoc-extended Markdown backend.